@Calebro posted:I have turned power to the track off and back on several times. The engine immediately wakes up in "conventional", with lights and sounds, but no movement / commands. Heck, I even tried switching my power master to conventional to see if it would run. It didn’t! The lights just raised and lowered with the voltage of the track.
Which possibly implies that the tender being separate is starting in conventional because it is NOT getting an IR signal from the engine.
The fact the engine doesn't take off or operate in conventional implies it's seeing the TMCC signal- you just haven't addressed it with a command.
Which as a summary, I would say follow the reset procedure for that engine when setting the TMCC address. That's because an incorrect feature code could prevent the correct IR serial data format from being sent- and that would explain the tender problem.
The manual for what I think is your engine, 6-28099 JLC Challenger https://www.lionelsupport.com/...ents/72-8064-250.pdf
page 15
Again, 74 is the "feature code" that is specific to that engine for the IR drawbar to work properly.
